Jean-François Milée or Millet I (1642-1679)

• Was a Flemish-French landscape painter of the Baroque era.
• According to Houbraken, Millet was the son of an ivory worker from Dijon.
• At the age of eighteen, he married his master's daughter.
• He specialized in Italianate landscapes with figures in the manner of Pousyn (Houbraken means the landscape painter Gaspard Dughet, Nicolas Poussin's brother-in-law).
• Though he enjoyed success on his travels through France, England, and Holland.
• He suffered from a sudden high fever which caused him to go insane and died shortly thereafter at the age of 36.
• He was buried in the St Nicolas-des-Champs church in Paris.
• His son, also named Jean François Millet, and also called Francisque, was born in Paris, and was made a member of the Academy of Painting in 1709.
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